"I like how they are. I think they're……" — Peter Carey
"I like how they are. I think they're great. And their communities are communities. I have a greater sense of community in New York than almost anywhere I've ever lived. Really, it's terrific."
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34 Quotes by Peter Carey
Peter Carey has 34 quotes on this site.
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All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.
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Swimming always cleans your soul
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I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter…
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I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating…
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Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
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Living where I live New York I don't think anyone's going to make a fuss. But it is more deeply…
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Then I fell in love and everything went to hell.
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And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to…
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At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up…
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Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.
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I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds…
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I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.
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[Answering whether there was life in other worlds, he said there probably was.] After all, there's plenty of unearthly looking…
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It is a reality that we have complete control of organised Christianity. Almost anywhere, completely. We 'Jews' must become lawyers…
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One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the…
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Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than…
— Henry Moore
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I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive…
— Don Henley
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What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry.
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I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what…
— Robert Bork
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I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do.
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What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise…
— Rick Hilles
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really…
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I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is…
— John Malkovich
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They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass…
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